Excerpt from http://www.bbc.co.uk/
* Thousands of survivors are still desperately waiting for the aid effort to reach them. At least 10,000 people are feared to have been killed. Tacloban is one of the worst affected cities.
* More than nine million people have been affected in the Philippines. Many are now struggling to survive without food, shelter or clean drinking water.
A picture is slowly emerging of the full damage wrought by the storm:
The exposed easterly town of Guiuan, Samar province - population 40,000 - is said to be largely destroyed
Three-hundred people were killed in the town of Basey, also in Samar, the provincial disaster office confirmed
Tacloban, Leyte province, was largely flattened by a massive storm surge and scores of corpses are piled by the roadside, leaving a stench in the air as they rot. Hundreds of people gathered at the airport desperate for food and water, others trying to get a flight out
Disaster worker Dennis Chong told the BBC that assessments in the far north of Cebu province had shown some towns had suffered "80-90% damage"
Baco, a city of 35,000 in Oriental Mindoro province, was 80% under water, the UN said.
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